A steam locomotive being used for his or her original purpose in the 21st century is something very special, I'd go as far as saying it's more special than heritage railways.

Thank you for your nice comment. Indeed our freight train was the first one to pass the repaired section, but it was not carrying any passengers. On the one hand, that would have been against the rule and more importantly, on the other hand we were too keen on taking pictures and videos to ride the train in this particular moment.

broken, brainwashed? what's that supposed to mean? lol

It’s supposed to mean these people live by hard work and use some common sense. None of the nanny state health and safety culture. Study the loco; there are two blokes hanging off the front dropping sand by hand to prevent wheelslip. One slip and the bloke is under the wheels or falls down a rock cliff. Try writing a risk assessment for that? Basically this is a way of life hardly anybody in the U.K. could hack. Now I’m quite sure I’d not want such a risky way to earn a few rupees. But those guys did their job. This is as primitive way a way to make a railway run as I’ve ever seen; incredible. Victorian way. Those unguarded, unmanned, unsignalled level crossings. Hazardous much? This seems astonishingly risky to me. So how does this work? Clearly the staff are full of skill, they can think through risky jobs and perform them. They aren’t thinking of suing their employer for putting them at risk, or not providing proper PPE, or for making them write down everything they do to defend their actions in case of a problem occurring. So fear of the threat of disciplinary action for not writing everything down isn’t happening here. The absolute need to follow procedure as it is written isn’t happening. Now there is merit to some of our way of doing it. But it carries a FEAR the whole damn time. These people take pride in the job instead. This is how it should be. That’s why they aren’t broken and we are. Understand yet?

I have visited it with my family when I was in class 3 ☺️❤️ it amazing place with amazing people and it's my favorite place I have ever visited ❤️❤️❤️!!!

ugh

They'll never planned to close this operation because its a UNESCO World Heritage.

I wish india would establish a railway university that teaches engineers on proper maintenance of these locomotiveslike in Japan, Germany, UK etc. It is really tragic that with the numbers of engineers that India produces, it seems like nobody has bothered to look into this

Cute Train, Nostalgia is number one priority to keep these trains operating.old lady is fun to watch Hope passengers pay their due at least to keep its up going and on her feet all through the year.and pay the wags for all her adoring crew.I wonder sometime passengers and crew have to disembark and push her up to climb up hill.Engine piston stroke noise is really enjoyable ,some times it resembles heart beats of dying man while listening through stethoscope.This noise,the sirens and the lovely black,coal dust smoke raising in to the horizon makes it all the more attractive.I wish I am there in the train.

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Hiring engineers with skills require higher salary and running this train system cost more money than it generates. If fares can be slightly increased and all the riders start paying than maintenance wont be an issue.

I guess the engineers must be thinking: "it moves, therefore there is no problem"

tow mans to drive a train, another man to load coal, another man to swing the flag, and the other two mans to put sand on the rails

No estoy exactamente de acuerdo. Estas locomotoras a vapor están perfectamente capaces tirar muchos más vagones. Pero entre Siliguri y Kurseong, la longitud de los trenes (y el numero de vagones) esta limitada por el diseño del ferrocarril. Y además, sobreviven solo cuatro vagones de mercaderías.

Respuesta a@@KochersbergTV . Eran bonitas y romanticas. Pero toda el agua transformada en vapor se iba por la chimenea perdiendo la mayor parte de la energia. En el caso que vemos, apenas el 3,7 a 4% era aprovechado como energia de movimiento. Las ultimas vaporeras avanzadas, tenian doble expansion, vapor seco recalentado y recuperador de calor en agua de alimentacion y llegaban a un aprovechamineto térmico del 7 al 7,5% contra el 35% de los motores diesel. La locomotora del video aun tiene distribicion plana.

En cuanto al argumenta termodinámica, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con usted. Es la razón por la que usé de "exactamente" en my comentario.

Danke schön, Jan. Nilgiri kommt schon. Bis nächsten Mahl.

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